Guscetti

This appeal is by the defendants from a judgment declaring null and void a certain deed purporting to convey title to certain real property in San Francisco, California, from plaintiff’s intestate to defendant John Dugan, Said judgment also directed the said defendant to convey to plaintiff, as administratrix, all his right, title, and interest in said real property and awarded to the plaintiff the rental value of the premises from the date of the deed until the surrender of possession.

In the early part of April, 1919, Louis A. Bassi, since deceased, was the owner and in possession of the real property in controversy. He was at that time a man between sixty and seventy years of age, whose closest living relatives were a sister and her daughter. The sister had been living in the northern part of the state for about two years. The property in controversy consisted of a lot of ground in San Francisco, California, upon which was situated a flat or two-family dwelling-place. Bassi -was living in one room of this flat. The upper flat was rented and the lower one was to let. The defendant, John Dugan, and his wife lived a few blocks away from the Bassi property. Mrs. Dugan had never…